Omaha daily bee., 1887-02-25
OVER TWO THOUSAND VICTIMS
Further Particulars Of the Great Earthquake
Swells the List Of Killed.
THE COUNTRY PANIC STRICKEN.
Inhabitants of Cities and Towns
Desert Their Dwellings and Camp
in the Open Air-Many Hair
breadth Escapes.


Cable-Special TO the BEE. line earth-
buaBes are the prevailing topic of conversa-
tlon here. The shocks reached so many
points, and it IL natural that from these
points that reports should be sent to London
which is the center for European news.
To-day the first full accounts reached
here as yesterday the local wires
were much interrupted in the neigh
borhood where the shocks were felt
AS an examination of an atlas will show the
area affected lay in three states. The first
shock was rci. Ia Geneva at twenty minutes
to Q a. m; the next heard of was moving
northwesterly to Grenoble, reaching there at
two minutes before 8: then it seemed to go
over directly to the east, toward Turin and
Milan, and southeasterly TO Bologna; thence
southwesterly TO Leghorn. The shock
seemed also to travel southwesterly from
Grenoble towards Avignon; then turning
southeastly to Marseiles and Toulonr
where the clock stopped at three minutes
past G. Then it travelled easterly to Cannes
and Nice. reaching Cannes at five min utes
past 6, and Toulon at quarter past. Thence
II went around the Riviera di Peuente and
di Leyant, passed Genoa in the horseshoe of
the ruff and reached Leghorn at twenty
three minutes past 6. But its power was
spent before 1t reached Rome. OF course the
shock was felt in many smaller places that
are less known.
TIE PANIC AND FRIGHT
seem to have been the principal result west
and north of Genoa, but thereabouts there
was much greater loss OF property ana
lives than was first reported
A seismatic writer to one OF the evening
papers says the truth is the region of the
Riviera lies on a great earthquake track
which extends from Thbet through
the Caucasus to the Greek islands,
and, passing under Italy and tile
south of France, traverses the coast of Spain
and sweeps under the Atlantic as far as the
West India islands and the volcanic range OF
South America. A huge branch of the great
current runs under the United States from
Texas and Louisiana to Canada. Now and
again the forces operating under the surface
of the earth are subject to
A VIOLENT CoMMoTIoN,
and hence we have now a shock in the east
or I'm the Levant, and then, rs few years
ago, in southern Spain. OF course there is
Mr.. ~ Told You So" This time he is Herr
Rudolph Fable, who predicted to an hour the
earthquake several davs ago. He points out
a statement that the annual eclipse of the
sun, which commenced on the Esd and was
visible only in East Asia, Australia and
Western South America, would be accom-
panied by extremely strong atmospheric
seismic disturbances, owing to the coincident
influence of the sun and moon. on the earth,
WRECKS OF TOWNS.
At MentOne houses are shattered ike those
In bombarded city. The windows are
blown out and the roofs knocked off. The
earthquake was capricous, the old town
being little injured. Most Of the big hotels
escaped The villa Carei was totally wrecked.
but the Hotel des Ambassadors, next
had
The Hotel des Estrangers was very sadly
injured. The villa Lourente and chateau du
Louvre are destroyed, also all the houses in
the rue Prato. The streets are Uttered with
the boxes and beds of people camping in the
squares. The shops are shut and business is
suspended. The people are terrified and
listless. Nobody has been killed, which is
curious, considering how gen eral the wreck
is. The English church is damaged. Visit
Ors are leaving and the trains are full. The
station is crammed with luggage and the
roads are thrOnged with carriages.
HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES.
Accounts of incidents are beginning tc
come in. especially those of hairbreadth es
capes. Among others is that of Miss Chop
elez, an American young lady, who was liter
ally buried alive for some moments in the
ruins of the villa Natal, at Nice, but wa
eventually happily rescued. Mr.. Hathaway
son of the American consul, was among
Others slightly injured. The king and queer
of Wurtemburg remain in the villa and ART
still there. The Due de Memours and the
Princess Blanche d'Orleans are encampne
In the garden of the villa Gracila, in which
they are living. The duke had all his paper:
removed to the garden with the remark, "Wt
must defend ourselves on the spot" Tht
Comte and Comtesse d'Eu, who are staying
nj fha viI!o ,,rI uhrar nfT
pnly occupy the ground floor of the house.
A DISMAL ASPECT.
The aspect of the town of Nice is very dis
NAL. Hundreds of houses have been cracked
by the earthquake shocks and are no Longer
habitable When the first shock was felt Al
Nice, at o'clock yesterday morning, all thu
people left the houses and rushed terro
Stricken and only partially dressed into tht
streets. General Jamais, the lieutenan
governor, climbed from his window to tht
ground with the help of a sheet.
The beautiful pleasure resort of Monaco
Escaped the worst features of the volcani,
wave. Still the panic was great People arr
rating, drinking and camping out of doors
Baron Rothschild has chartered sleeping
ear for the use of his family and himself
Gambling, however, went on almost as il
nothing had happened.
Last night at Nice, in the place Grimaldi
General Jamais had ordered tents to b.
erected. Under the shelter of the huge can
vas coverings men, women and children
gathered, lying on mattresses brought frou
their homes. Some fashionable resident
slept in their carriages in the open oil. Ever
now and then volcanic tremor, real on fan
cied, caused the sleepers to start up, while
slight shock just before 9 a, IN. caused
fresh panic, which was only calmed b.
the officers on duty. All through the wear
night the suspense lasted, and when at las
the dawn of Thursday came II brought with
THE FEARFUL sURMIsE
that perhaps the completion of twenty-fou
hours would bring another visitation
When, however, the watches pointed to hal
past 9 the strain seemed suddenly TO rela
ard parents, weeping with joy, embrace
their children, while many with their chi
dren and with sfilened limbs yentured int
their abandoned dwellings.
The accounts this morning from Rom
show that the popuious province of Port
Maurizio has borne the full brunt of III
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